Beyond Sustainability
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Green Building BEYOND BRICKS AND MORTAR – THE CHALLENGE OF CHANGE Merle Kindred, PhD
I invite you to share a journey over the past century and view examples of built environments through the lens of my personal experience as both an academic and activist grappling with the challenges in transforming resource and energy conscious Green Building into expanded green thinking as a life perspective. We start in southwest India on the Arabian Sea in the state of Kerala that’s been modeling unprecedented gains in educational achievement, universal health care, and other features of an enlightened society over the past half century. After World War II, British-born architect Laurie Baker